From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 14:45:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0817155A4 for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:45:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA39965; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:45:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:45:32 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do I need a 387 to install FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <19991129164531.A39880@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3842FF47.FCABB55D@cybercable.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3842FF47.FCABB55D@cybercable.fr>; from "Thierry Herbelot" on Mon Nov 29 23:33:43 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 29), Thierry Herbelot said: > A friend of mine insists on being a victim of the FreeBSD virus : he > wants an ancient 386 PC to become his gateway to the Internet (via a > Cable connection). > > I've just read the handbook section on installing FreeBSD and I don't > see wether the GENERIC kernel needs a 387 or not. What should I read > ? (the GENERIC conf file does not seem to help) - and I do not have a > PC without a numeric co-proceeor (the "lightest" PC I have is a > 486-DX33) Check your GENERIC file again. Mine has the line: options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation which means that it will work on machines without a (an?) FPU. Just make sure he's got enough RAM to boot the install floppy. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message